{"id":1053,"date":"2010-11-08T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.wordpress.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2010-11-08T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:51:28","slug":"my-heads-all-tied-up-like-a-pretzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2010\/11\/my-heads-all-tied-up-like-a-pretzel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My head&#8217;s all tied up like a pretzel!&#8221; *"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>*- With apologies for plagiarizing Cal from <em>Talladega Nights<\/em>, that was my reaction when I came across the following video; it\u2019s just your average church of African-American, Rastafarian, Messianic Jew- type Christians. \u00a0See? \u00a0There\u2019s a pretzel in your head too, right?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here is part one of these guys explaining why Thanksgiving is a pagan holiday and shouldn\u2019t be celebrated by Christians. \u00a0Come for the reggae music, stay for the sweet shofar.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSNNirfUn4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSNNirfUn4<\/a>\n<p>And if you\u2019re interested in learning more about this church, you can check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/congregationisrael.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*- With apologies for plagiarizing Cal from Talladega Nights, that was my reaction when I came across the following video; it\u2019s just your average church of African-American, Rastafarian, Messianic Jew- type Christians. \u00a0See? \u00a0There\u2019s a pretzel in your head too, right? 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